Cheboygan girls' basketball team beats Newberry

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Dec 8, 2012 at 12:19 AMDec 8, 2012 at 12:21 AM

Despite the slim halftime advantage, the Chiefs outscored Newberry by a 16-2 margin in the third quarter to build a 39-22 lead. “We really struggled with their 1-3-1 zone defense at first, but I thought we improved against it throughout the game,” Purcell said. “I was really proud of the girls' effort tonight, though. It's never easy to come up the U.P. and pick up a victory, so this one feels good.”

NEWBERRY — In what Jason Purcell called a "crazy" game, the Cheboygan girls' basketball team was able to capture 45-31 victory at Newberry on Friday, improving to 3-0 overall, 1-0 conference. "It was an interesting game, that's for sure," said Purcell, whose team led 19-11 after the first quarter and 23-20 at halftime. "We had two really good quarters in the first and third quarters, but we had two bad quarters in the second and four quarters, so it was kind've a weird game."Despite the slim halftime advantage, the Chiefs outscored Newberry by a 16-2 margin in the third quarter to build a 39-22 lead. "We really struggled with their 1-3-1 zone defense at first, but I thought we improved against it throughout the game," Purcell said. "I was really proud of the girls' effort tonight, though. It's never easy to come up the U.P. and pick up a victory, so this one feels good."Despite early foul trouble, Holly Socolovitch scored a team-high 15 points—11 of which came in the first quarter—to lead Cheboygan in the contest, while Brooke Hancock added 13 points, four assists and four steals, and Macey Charboneau tallied eight points and five rebounds. Others chipping in for the Chiefs were Bridget Blaskowski (four points), Mariah Rozek (four rebounds, four assists, two points), Caitlin McNeil (five rebounds, four steals, one point) and Kelsey Reager (two points). Cheboygan will look to get to 4-0 when they host Petoskey on Monday at 7:30 p.m. In the junior varsity contest, Ashley Hempenstall scored 18 points and Carolyn Clark added seven to lead Cheboygan in a 46-35 loss to the Indians on Friday.

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